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Author: Grant Kaplan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780268100858
Size: 70.54 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2016
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Ren Girard Unlikely Apologist eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Since the late 1970s, theologians have been attempting to integrate mimetic theory into different fields of theology, yet a distrust of mimetic theory persists in some theological camps. In René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology, Grant Kaplan brings mimetic theory into conversation with theology both to elucidate the relevance of mimetic theory for the discipline of fundamental theology and to understand the work of René Girard within a theological framework. Rather than focus on Christology or atonement theory as the locus of interaction between Girard and theology, Kaplan centers his discussion on the apologetic quality of mimetic theory and the impact of mimetic theory on fundamental theology, the subdiscipline that grew to replace apologetics. His book explores the relation between Girard and fundamental theology in several keys. In one, it understands mimetic theory as a heuristic device that allows theological narratives and positions to become more intelligible and, by so doing, makes theology more persuasive. In another key, Kaplan shows how mimetic theory, when placed in dialogue with particular theologians, can advance theological discussion in areas where mimetic theory has seldom been invoked. On this level the book performs a dialogue with theology that both revisits earlier theological efforts and also demonstrates how mimetic theory brings valuable dimensions to questions of fundamental theology.

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Author: Renae Girard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501320475
Size: 29.34 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-10-06
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Ren Girard And Raymund Schwager eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The brilliant and ground-breaking mimetic theory of the French-American theorist Ren� Girard (1923-2015)has gained wide-ranging recognition, yet its development has received less attention. This volume presents the important correspondence-conducted in French and as yet unpublished, let alone translated into English-between Girard and his major theological interlocutor Raymund Schwager SJ (1935-2004). It presents the personal relationship between two great thinkers that led to the development of a significant break-through in the humanities. In particular it reveals the theological development of Girard's thought in dialogue with Schwager, who was concerned to assist Girard in areas where he had little expertise and had encountered major criticism, such as the theological application of sacrifice. These issues in particular had placed major barriers to Girard's acceptance in theological circles. These letters reveal how Girard, with Schwager's help, entered the mainstream of theological debate.

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Author: Gianni Vattimo
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148283
Size: 23.89 MB
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Release Date: 2010-02-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Christianity Truth And Weakening Faith eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives. Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith advances just such a dialogue, featuring the collaboration of two major philosophers known for their progressive approach to this issue. Seeking unity over difference, Gianni Vattimo and RenŽ Girard turn to Max Weber, Eric Auerbach, and Marcel Gauchet, among others, in their exploration of truth and liberty, relativism and faith, and the tensions of a world filled with new forms of religiously inspired violence. Vattimo and Girard ultimately conclude that secularism and the involvement (or lack thereof) of religion in governance are, in essence, produced by Christianity. In other words, Christianity is "the religion of the exit from religion," and democracy, civil rights, the free market, and individual freedoms are all facilitated by Christian culture. Through an exchange that is both intimate and enlightening, Vattimo and Girard share their unparalleled insight into the relationships among religion, modernity, and the role of Christianity, especially as it exists in our multicultural world.

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Book Detail:
Author: Scott Cowdell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501310917
Size: 77.11 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2015-07-30
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Violence Desire And The Sacred Volume 2 eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. State of the art interpretations of Rene Girard's theory and its relation to fields as diverse as politics, national literature, pastoral care and peace-making

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Author: Andrew O'Shea
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144110576X
Size: 74.83 MB
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Release Date: 2010-06-08
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Selfhood And Sacrifice eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Selfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers.

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Book Detail:
Author: Antonio Cerella
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474297301
Size: 21.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2016
Category: Religion and politics
Language: en
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Download PDF The Sacred And The Political eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, immanence and transcendence, religion and violence? And how has this relationship affected the history of the West and its political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by Ren ̌Girard (1923- ), one of the most important thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, to Machiavelli and political modernity, to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny connections between sacrality and politics in Western political thought and find an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this book seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called 'age of globalization'."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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Book Detail:
Author: Bruce Ward
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802807615
Size: 35.43 MB
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Release Date: 2010-02-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Redeeming The Enlightenement eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As we move further away from the historical period known as the Enlightenment, it seems the debate about its impact becomes increasingly polarized. Arguments focus on either rejecting or claiming its legacy. In this book Bruce Ward contends that the concern should be neither to reject or claim, but to see how it can be redeemed. / Ward sets up a three-sided dialogic encounter among primary thinkers and critics of modernity philosophical, theological, and literary using Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky to focus the discussion. Ward does not neglect other significant thinkers notably Kant, Heidegger, Tolstoy, Charles Taylor, Locke, Kafka, Ren Girard, and Martha Nussbaum but uses them to illumine the questions at issue among the primary three. Though each chapter of this book can be treated as a relatively independent reflection, the book as a whole offers innovative redemption of the Enlightenment values of equality, authenticity, tolerance, and compassion.

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Book Detail:
Author: René Girard
Publisher: Herder & Herder
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Size: 17.65 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1996
Category: Bible
Language: en
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Download PDF The Girard Reader eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Rene Girard, the author of groundbreaking scholarly books such as Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, has long been an intellectual cause celebre in Europe. Although he has studied and taught in the United States since the 1940s, he is now -- in his 70's -- finding his lifework praised and taught in academic and religious circles throughout the country.The Girard Reader brings that work to a broader audience. It includes major excerpts from Girard's books and articles which cover all aspects of his theories on violence, religion, and culture. These views cut across theology, biblical studies, anthropology, psychology, and literature. The book concludes with a conversation between Rene Girard and editor James G. Williams that brings new focus to his Christian vision and breathtaking ouevre.

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Book Detail:
Author: René Girard
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609171330
Size: 36.20 MB
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Release Date: 2009-12-15
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Battling To The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Battling to the End René Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. Clausewitz, who has been critiqued by military strategists, political scientists, and philosophers, famously postulated that "War is the continuation of politics by other means." He also seemed to believe that governments could constrain war. Clausewitz, a firsthand witness to the Napoleonic Wars, understood the nature of modern warfare. Far from controlling violence, politics follows in war's wake: the means of war have become its ends. René Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. Haunted by the French-German conflict, Clausewitz clarifies more than anyone else the development that would ravage Europe. Battling to the End pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun. Human violence is escaping our control; today it threatens the entire planet.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520930614
Size: 49.76 MB
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Release Date: 2003-09-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Terror In The Mind Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Completely revised and updated, this new edition of Terror in the Mind of God incorporates the events of September 11, 2001 into Mark Juergensmeyer's landmark study of religious terrorism. Juergensmeyer explores the 1993 World Trade Center explosion, Hamas suicide bombings, the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack, and the killing of abortion clinic doctors in the United States. His personal interviews with 1993 World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima, Christian Right activist Mike Bray, Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdul Azis Rantisi, and Sikh political leader Simranjit Singh Mann, among others, take us into the mindset of those who perpetrate and support violence in the name of religion.

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Book Detail:
Author: Scott Cowdell
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268104565
Size: 63.28 MB
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Release Date: 2018-11-30
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Ren Girard And The Nonviolent God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In his latest book on the ground-breaking work of René Girard (1923–2015), Scott Cowdell sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory and theology: he develops the proposed connection between Girardian thought and theological dramatic theory in new directions, engaging with issues of evolutionary suffering and divine providence, inclusive Christian uniqueness, God's judgment, nonviolent atonement, and the spiritual life. Cowdell reveals a powerful, illuminating, and life-enhancing synergy between mimetic theory and Christianity at its best. With religion widely seen as increasingly violent and intransigent, the true Christian emphasis on divine solidarity, mercy, and healing is in danger of being lost. René Girard provides a countervailing voice. He emerges from Cowdell's study not only as a necessary dialogue partner for theology today, but as a global prophet offering hope and challenge in equal measure. René Girard was a Catholic cultural theorist whose mimetic theory achieved a powerful symbiosis of social science with scripture and theology, yielding a unique perspective on humanity’s origins, violent history, and future prospects. Cowdell maps this synergy, revealing theological themes present from Girard’s earliest writings to the latest, less-familiar publications. He resolves a number of theological challenges to Girard’s work, engaging mimetic theory in fruitful dialogue with key themes, movements, and thinkers in theology today. Bringing a distinctive Anglican voice to a largely Catholic debate, Cowdell gives an orthodox theological account of Girard’s intellectual achievement, bearing witness to Christianity’s nonviolent God. This book will be of great interest to theologians, seminarians and clergy of all traditions, Girardians, and Christian peace activists.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rosalind Gill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745698999
Size: 33.49 MB
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Release Date: 2015-10-02
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Gender And The Media eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where confident expressions of girl power sit alongside reports of epidemic levels of anorexia among young women, moral panics about the impact on men of idealized representations of the 'six-pack', but near silence about the pervasive re-sexualization of women's bodies, along with a growing use of irony and playfulness that render critique extremely difficult. The book looks in depth at five areas of media - talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances - to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the twenty-first century, partly in response to feminist, queer and anti-racist critique. Gender and the Media is also concerned with the theoretical tools available for analysing representations. A range of approaches from semiotics to postcolonial theory are discussed, and Gill asks how useful notions such as objectification, backlash, and positive images are for making sense of gender in today's Western media. Finally, Gender and the Media also raises questions about cultural politics - namely, what forms of critique and intervention are effective at a moment when ironic quotation marks seem to protect much media content from criticism and when much media content - from Sex and the City to revenge adverts - can be labelled postfeminist. This is a book that will be of particular interest to students and scholars in gender and media studies, as well as those in sociology and cultural studies more generally.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Alison
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137538252
Size: 48.46 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-10-19
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Palgrave Handbook Of Mimetic Theory And Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion draws on the expertise of leading scholars and thinkers to explore the violent origins of culture, the meaning of ritual, and the conjunction of theology and anthropology, as well as secularization, science, and terrorism. Authors assess the contributions of René Girard’s mimetic theory to our understanding of sacrifice, ancient tragedy, and post-modernity, and apply its insights to religious cinema and the global economy. This handbook serves as introduction and guide to a theory of religion and human behavior that has established itself as fertile terrain for scholarly research and intellectual reflection.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark Poster
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745677983
Size: 29.32 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2018-03-08
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Second Media Age eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book examines the implications of new communication technologies in the light of the most recent work in social and cultural theory and argues that new developments in electronic media, such as the Internet and Virtual Reality, justify the designation of a "second media age".

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Book Detail:
Author: James B. Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525138
Size: 78.11 MB
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Release Date: 2002-07-18
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The King S Army eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Historians have long ignored the military aspect of the wars of religion which raged in France during the late sixteenth century, dismissing the conflicts as aimless or hopelessly confused. In contrast, this meticulously researched analysis of the royal army and its operations during the early civil wars brings warfare back to the centre of the picture. James B. Wood explains the reasons for the initial failure of the monarchy to defeat the Huguenots, and examines how that failure prolonged the conflict. He argues that the nature and outcome of the civil wars can only be explained by the fusion of religious rebellion and incomplete military revolution. This study makes an important contribution to the history of military forces, warfare and society, and will be of great interest to those engaged in the debate over the 'Military Revolution' in early modern Europe.

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Book Detail:
Author: Peter Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191557528
Size: 44.70 MB
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Release Date: 2011-02-04
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Oxford Handbook Of The Sociology Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion draws on the expertise of an international team of scholars providing both an entry point into the sociological study and understanding of religion and an in-depth survey into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. The role and impact of religion and spirituality on the politics, culture, education and health in the modern world is rigorously discussed and debated. The study of the sociology of religion forges interdisciplinary links to explore aspects of continuity and change in the contemporary interface between society and religion. Using a combination of theoretical, methodological and content-led approaches, the fifty-seven contributors collectively emphasise the complex relationships between religion and aspects of life from scientific research to law, ecology to art, music to cognitive science, crime to institutional health care and more. The developing character of religion, irreligion and atheism and the impact of religious diversity on social cohesion are explored. An overview of current scholarship in the field is provided in each themed chapter with an emphasis on encouraging new thinking and reflection on familiar and emergent themes to stimulate further debate and scholarship. The resulting essay collection provides an invaluable resource for research and teaching in this diverse discipline.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Brown
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191607894
Size: 43.35 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2008-03-20
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF God And Mystery In Words eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Imagery and hymns mattered, liturgial msic encouraged a sense of drama, sermons required rhetoric. In a characteristically stimulatling and inspiringly expansive study, that ranges from ancient Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown pleads for a much wider focus on the kind of factors that aid experience of God.

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Book Detail:
Author: Celia E. Deane-Drummond
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498291929
Size: 58.34 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-03-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Religion In The Anthropocene eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book charts a new direction in humanities scholarship through serious engagement with the geopolitical concept of the Anthropocene. Drawing on religious stwhatudies, theology, social science, history and philosophy, and can be broadly termed the environmental humanities, this collection represents a groundbreaking critical analysis of diverse narratives on the Anthropocene. The contributors to this volume recognize that the Anthropocene began as a geological concept, the age of the humans, but that its implications are much wider than this. Will the Anthropocene have good or bad ethical outcomes? Does the Anthropocene idea challenge the possibility of a sacred Nature, which shores up many religious approaches to environmental ethics? Or is the Anthropocene a secularized theological anthropology more properly dealt with through traditional concepts from Catholic social teaching on human ecology? Do theological traditions, such as Christology, reinforce negative aspects of the Anthropocene? Not all contributors in this volume agree with the answers to these different questions. Readers will be challenged, provoked, and stimulated by this book.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052151780X
Size: 33.92 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2009-04-27
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Secularism And State Policies Toward Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Comparing policy in America, France, and Turkey, this book analyzes the impact of ideological struggles on public policies toward religion.

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Book Detail:
Author: Chris Fleming
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745629476
Size: 39.92 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2004-09-03
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Rene Girard eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the work of Rene Girard, thought by many to be one of the most important, if controversial, cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Girard's work is extraordinarily innovative and wide-ranging, cutting across central concerns in philosophy, psychoanalysis, literary theory, anthropology, theology, and sociology. In this much-needed introduction, Chris Fleming traces the development of Girard's thought over forty years, describing the context in which he worked and his influence on a number of disciplines. He unpacks the hypotheses at the centre of Girard's thought - mimetic desire, surrogate victimage and scapegoating, myth, ritual, and the sacred - and provides an assessment of Girard's place in the contemporary academy. Comprehensive and clearly written, this book constitutes an excellent overview of Girard's work and is essential reading for students and researchers in continental philosophy, theology, literary studies, French studies, and cultural studies.

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